by ThatsRight » Wed Feb 01, 2012 9:14 am
lolinus wrote:Grades dosen't represent knowledge, grades represent how much you know on a test. Not how much you do really know when the course/class is over.
I got a "90 average" and put in about 1/4 of the time studying. I'd always hear people bitching that they spend 8 hours studying or "oh, I spent all weekend". MAYBE we both got "A's", but in the end, who's smarter? They can spend hours and hours memorizing something and spit it back. I can look at it once, and know it, and apply it. Which one do you think translates better to working on client who has billable hours?
Not to mention, a test with multiple choice has the answer right there. Could those people get all those same questions right if it was fill in the blank instead? I doubt it. Tests aren't effective, and one of the best professors I ever had did not give them. Ever. It was the hardest and most beneficial class that I ever took.
School is not about the facts or formulas you "learned". It teaches you how to learn what you'll need going forward, how to multitask, get along with people, meet deadlines/specifications, and not buckle under pressure. The process is what's important, not what "grade" you got.
Soft skills take you places. You can be smart, but good teams have people on it they want to be around. It's why the 3.9 "smart person" will be shocked after the 3.5 student with the clubs, internships, and people skills to get managers and clients to like them will be walking circles around them in the workforce.
In fact, the smartass who thinks he's smart because he gets a "90 average", like Bromley, is a liability. Even the best expert in there field knows the smallest fraction of what there's to know. Know-it-alls aren't liked, and they aren't good at what they do because they're unable to recognize their own faults for self improvement or defer to people who do actually know. They collapse in the face of adversity. He'll be spinning wheels wasting time when something doesn't fit into their little memorization game, because they don't actually have the intelligence to work through problems.
[quote="lolinus"]Grades dosen't represent knowledge, grades represent how much you know on a test. Not how much you do really know when the course/class is over.[/quote]
I got a "90 average" and put in about 1/4 of the time studying. I'd always hear people bitching that they spend 8 hours studying or "oh, I spent all weekend". MAYBE we both got "A's", but in the end, who's smarter? They can spend hours and hours memorizing something and spit it back. I can look at it once, and know it, and apply it. Which one do you think translates better to working on client who has billable hours?
Not to mention, a test with multiple choice has the answer right there. Could those people get all those same questions right if it was fill in the blank instead? I doubt it. Tests aren't effective, and one of the best professors I ever had did not give them. Ever. It was the hardest and most beneficial class that I ever took.
School is not about the facts or formulas you "learned". It teaches you how to learn what you'll need going forward, how to multitask, get along with people, meet deadlines/specifications, and not buckle under pressure. The process is what's important, not what "grade" you got.
Soft skills take you places. You can be smart, but good teams have people on it they want to be around. It's why the 3.9 "smart person" will be shocked after the 3.5 student with the clubs, internships, and people skills to get managers and clients to like them will be walking circles around them in the workforce.
In fact, the smartass who thinks he's smart because he gets a "90 average", like Bromley, is a liability. Even the best expert in there field knows the smallest fraction of what there's to know. Know-it-alls aren't liked, and they aren't good at what they do because they're unable to recognize their own faults for self improvement or defer to people who do actually know. They collapse in the face of adversity. He'll be spinning wheels wasting time when something doesn't fit into their little memorization game, because they don't actually have the intelligence to work through problems.